At the end of the 5 days' opening weekend, Mersal has approximately grossed around 6.86 crores from Chennai City alone. This is a new record as Mersal becomes the 1st film ever to collect 6 crores plus gross from its 1st weekend.

Mersal had close to 680 shows over the weekend in Chennai. PVR and INOX have been temporarily shut down, and the total screen count and collection would be even better had both these multiplexes screened the film. Ticket price increase has helped a great deal, but consequently, the net would be lesser than the gross. 

Having said that this is still a massive opening that any filmmaker would dream for and let us hope that Mersal keeps the box office counters ringing.